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Frank Kelleter
/
Alexander Starre
(eds.)
Culture^2
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
In fifteen lively and stimulating essays centered on critical key works, Culture^2 reflects on how to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century.
The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms
Have you ever wondered about who you are laughing at when watching your favorite sitcom? And the social and political implications thereof? This study gives unexpected and unsettling answers.
Imaging the Scenes of War
Aesthetic Crossovers in American Visual Culture
An exploration of American visual culture during the 1930s and 1940s, that was drastically changed through the horrors of World War II.
Global Curriculum Development
How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the 21st Century
A guide to redesigning the undergraduate curriculum of U.S. universities and empowering students as agents of change in our global age of complexity, crisis, and innovation.
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
How do biology and culture interact? This book provides an extensive cultural analysis of biohacking and Do-it-yourself medicine.
Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
This study offers an outline of the genre of Black travel writing as well as analyses of travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published between the 1990s and 2010s.
21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Leopold Lippert
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Ralph J. Poole
(eds.)
The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater
Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices
This collection explores the role and relevance of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.